Children's hospital to add 15-story tower

Linking research with medical services will be the goal of a new $180?million research tower at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center.

Linking research with medical services will be the goal of a new $180 million research tower at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center.

It will give Children's the largest pediatric-research facility in the country, with 1.4 million square feet.

Children's will start construction this summer on the 15-story tower on its Burnet Avenue campus. When it's completed in 2015, it will add 425,000 square feet, so Children's can hire as many as 100 more research faculty members in the next five years.

"I think it will link the research that we do to the patients that we serve," said Arnold Strauss, director of the hospital's Research Foundation.

Children's will try to raise about $54 million from donations, and pay for the rest from operating earnings, reserves and investment income.

The project underscores the growth at Children's since its most-recent research building opened in 2007. It has added more than 2,000 employees, 4,000 patient admissions and $23 million in annual research grants.

In addition to being one of three top-ranked pediatric hospitals in the country, it is among the Cincinnati area's top-five employers.

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